Nicole Steinberg

STOP PANICKING ABOUT GETTING OLDER, YOU PRICKS

We are good tenants, all.We wake to pay our rent,for mornings warm as mouthfulsof amaretto and/or God, for sexperformed according toindividual concepts of joy.For the spilled milk of outerspace and how earth dissolvesits porous children, my eyes crosswith love. They say I’m getting tothat age when I’ll have to decide.

Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and two chapbooks available in 2014: Undressing from dancing girl press and Clever Little Gang, winner of the Furniture Press 4X4 Chapbook Award. Her other publications include Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011) and Birds of Tokyo (dancing girl press, 2011).